I was going to write about the MAGA uproar and ICE threats about Bad Bunny and the Superbowl, but then I saw Melania Trump's AI post on X, By Hal M. Brown

 

I looked at HUFFPOST this morning and saw the articles above about Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl.

I decided that I’d take a break from writing about Trump’s “take as few prisioners as possible” blitzkrieg, or his unhingedness, and address how ridiculous their bothering with the culture war is. I mean, I never heard of Bad Bunny and I was curious enough to find some YouTubes of him. I am sure I am not alone.

Here’s his YouTube channel: 

Then, also looking at HUFFPOST I saw this:

This prompted me to go to Perchance AI and ask for images of Melania Trump crying and then I used them in this reply to her post on X.

I even posted it as a comment to the HUFFPOST article:

I also used AI to make the top illustration for this Substack.

I admit that I’d like it if one of my posts on X or Bluesky was picked up and amplified on one or another the websites which features social media posts in one of their articles. Both HUFFPOST and RawStory do this. Not that I am starving for recognition beyond my miniscule pressence on Substack (insert humility emoji)… 

Getting serious, I wondered whether Project 2025 addresed woke and the culture war so I asked AI. This is the answer I got:

Yes, Project 2025 includes proposals that address issues related to the culture war, emphasizing a conservative agenda that opposes “woke” policies. It advocates for a broader implementation of conservative values across various sectors of government, reflecting a focus on cultural issues.

I found this in this long article about Project 2025:

In calling for a return to the “biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family” (page 481), an end to all forms of “woke propaganda” (page 9) and the jailing of pornographers (page 5), Project 2025 is clear in its intention to make the federal government a combatant in the culture war.

I also found this is in  “Voters Are Tired of the “War on Woke” from June 2024.

Of course Biden dropped out, Kamala ran and was, if anything, even more woke than him, and she lost. Between June of 2024 Trump added anti-trans to his campaign train of grievances and this may actually have swayed a few votes. He created some delusional demon called DEI. He went anti-woke bigly. 

He’s president/dictator, possibly for the rest of his life, so the question remains as to why he and his minions are bothering with the woke war.

I will venture an answer. I think it is for a similar reason as mine for using AI to make the images of Melania. I think it is because it is fun to be malicious at times. For me it is a way to express my sense of helplessness through mockery. For them I think it is because they get pleasure out of kicking those they feel are already down.

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I didn’t know the following:

I was looking up top Spotify streams and number one is Taylor Swift. Number two is Bad Bunny.

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Sorry, Jennifer Rubin, Bill Barr can't play a vital role in helping Republicans accept that Trump is unfit for office

 

The words in Jennifer Rubin's opinion piece in The Washington Post (here, subscription) which I've highlighted below are why I say that Bill Barr can't play a vital role in helping Republicans accept that Trump is unfit for office:

 As Trump’s former attorney general, Barr’s willingness to speak out tells Republicans still capable of reason that the case is real, it’s serious, it cannot be brushed off and that the Justice Department didn’t engage in misconduct. Barr could break through the right-wing media bubble that shelters millions of Republicans from reality. They have convinced themselves that Trump is innocent and/or that this will all go away. Even after word of the indictment spread, Republican politicians continued to attack the Justice Department as if it, not Trump, were on trial. Barr is there to shake them by the lapels, effectively telling them, “No, he’s in big trouble because he did something very, very wrong.”

To be capable of reason one has to be willing to engage in critical thinking. People who aren't seriously mentally impaired are capable of reason, of rational thought, but before they exercise these "brain muscles" they have to be willing to accept they may have to alter beliefs they have not only held before, but shared with others, sometimes in very public ways.

Barr has said that if even half of what Trump has been accused of can be proved in court, he's toast.

You can listen to Barr here:

Consider that following these remarks by Barr, Trump called him  a "disgruntled former employee' & lazy Attorney General who was weak & totally ineffective" and wrote on Truth Social:

"He doesn't mean what he's saying, it's just MISINFORMATION.Barr's doing it because he hates 'TRUMP' for firing him. He was deathly afraid of the Radical Left when they said they would Impeach him. He knows the Indictment is Bull.... Turn off FoxNews when that 'Gutless Pig' is on!"

Jennifer Rubin wrote that "Trump’s former counsel Ty Cobb told CNN, 'I think Trump is in an enormous amount of trouble. This indictment is about as carefully structured and evidentially supported as any indictment in history.' Law professor Jonathan Turley, who frequently defended Trump’s behavior during his impeachments, wrote, 'For two years, I have said that the Mar-a-Lago charges — particularly obstruction — represent the greatest threat to Donald Trump. It remains baffling why Trump forced this issue over these documents rather than just give them all back.'" Nobody who isn't a political junkie really knows who they are (although they might recognize Cobb with his mustache and flowing locks). 

Consider that Daddy Trump even turned on his most favorite progeny, Ivanka after she supported Bill Barr:

Posting to Truth Social -- the social media network Trump launched after being kicked off Twitter -- Trump continued to repeat false claims about the 2020 election as he mocked the committee's work and lashed out at comments Ivanka Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr made in videotaped depositions.

"Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results," Trump wrote after she said she agreed with Barr's assessment that there was no amount of fraud sufficient enough to overturn his loss.

"It affected my perspective," Ivanka Trump told the committee about Barr's assessment. "I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying."

Trump fired back Friday that Ivanka "had long since checked out, and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!)."  Reference

Even if there was a cat in the presumably petless Mar-a-Lago who had hidden away Melania's tongue and it was returned to her along with all the copies of the couple's prenuptial agreement, and she decided she could reign as a queen in the Manhattan social scene as a redeemed heroine, none of the dyed in the wool Trump supports would blink when Trump disavowed her. 

Trump after all could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they'd shrug it off, and he could call his dear Melania any horrific name in his book of insults and they'd figure she deserved it for her disloyalty. Remember Megyn Kelly?

There's a Trumptown cult and it's members would drink his Kool-Aide if he told them to.

So, so sorry Jennifer Rubin, even Bill Barr won't be able to get enough  members of Trump's cult to think rationally. 

Update:

Trump continued by calling Barr "weak" and taking a shot at his weight.

"And now he goes and he sits down — if they can find a chair for him, because it's not that easy — and he sits down and he just bloviates and it's disgraceful," Trump said. "It's actually unpatriotic. It's so bad for our country, just so bad. But, you know, he's got a lot of hatred." From:

Trump rages at Bill Barr on Truth Social for admitting Mar-a-Lago indictment is "very, very damning"

Real mature, Donald...

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